A pilot study to assess the validity of the Orthodontic Treatment Priority Index in English schoolchildren
| Autor: | G. A. Scivier, C. D. Parker, D. M. Menezes |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Index (economics) Standardization Statistics as Topic Pilot Projects Orthodontics Corrective Patient Care Planning Dental Occlusion Methods Humans Medicine Medical physics Child General Dentistry Reliability (statistics) Orthodontics business.industry Dental occlusion Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Objective method medicine.disease Test (assessment) School Dentistry England Evaluation Studies as Topic Jaw Relation Record Malocclusion business |
| Zdroj: | Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. 2:246-252 |
| ISSN: | 0301-5661 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1600-0528.1974.tb01658.x-i1 |
| Popis: | Due to the need for a reliable objective method of assessing the presence and degree of malocclusion by non-orthodontic personnel for epidemiologic purposes, a study was undertaken to investigate the Orthodontic Treatment Priority Index. A reproducibility trial was carried out, followed by discussions with an orthodontist (D.M.M.) and the use of study models to improve standardization. To test the Index, comparisons with the clinical judgments of two orthodontists were made in two separate studies of 100 children each. Each orthodontist reexamined 20 children for reproducibility. Intraexaminer reliability was good for both Index and clinical scores and a reasonable correlation was obtained between the Index and the clinical assessments in both instances. Although the results are promising and the method practical, further study is indicated, especially to determine interexaminer reliability of Index and clinical standards. It is the opinion of the authors that the Treatment Priority Index is extremely promising and a reliable objective method of assessing the presence and degree of malocclusion for epidemiologic purposes. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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